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Geohot Sony defense fund closes after rapid response

Chris Davies, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Hacker George Hotz (aka Geohot) surprised a few people when he changed his long-standing unofficial policy on asking for donations last week; then again, when Sony unleashes its legal team on you, you need all the help you can get. It seems that help was fast forthcoming: Geohot has announced that he has all the donations he needs to secure "a few more lawyers" to defend his case over PS3 encryption cracking. Read The Full Story

Nexus One gets Android 3.0 Honeycomb port

Chris Davies, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Honeycomb has hit the Nexus One, though the tablet OS on the original Google phone won't exactly set the world on fire, at least not in this early stage. xda-developers' bypass23 has ported the Android 3.0 SDK to the Nexus One, complete with some tricks and tweaks to make the landscape display work properly and the app drawer function as it should. Read The Full Story

AT&T Motorola ATRIX 4G already rooted

Chris Davies, Feb 19th 2011 Discuss [5]

Motorola hasn't been too keen on Android modders tinkering with its smartphones, throwing in various locked-down bootloaders and other frustrations to prevent the hardware running custom ROMs. Unfortunately for Moto, however, there's nothing a hacker likes more than a challenge, and so it comes as little surprise to discover that the Motorola ATRIX 4G has been rooted before it's even on shelves. Read The Full Story

Kinect connects to Android for reading depth info

Shane McGlaun, Feb 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Kinect hacks are coming with geeks taking the device that Microsoft intended for the Xbox 360 console and hacking it to do things Microsoft never envisioned. As it, turns out the hacking community for the Kinect grew quickly and today the Kinect will do things like allowing doctors to perform surgery, control robots, and lots more. Read The Full Story

GreenPois0n iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak released

Chris Davies, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [47]

Got an iOS device running 4.2.1 that's in dire need of an untethered jailbreak? Good news; the Chronic Dev Team has released a new solution, GreenPois0n, promising an untethered jailbreak suitable for Mac, Linux or Windows users, and opening up your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the joys of the Cydia unofficial app store. Read The Full Story

Android 3.0 Honeycomb ROM for NOOKcolor released [Update: Video]

Chris Davies, Feb 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Having seen Barnes & Noble's NOOKcolor gifted with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, it's now your turn to catch a jump on Google's official reveal of the tablet-centric OS. The talented guys over at xda-developers have released a NOOKcolor Honeycomb ROM and it's surprisingly functional: the touchscreen, wireless and graphics acceleration all work. Read The Full Story

Sony Move Server project to push PlayStation Move to PCs

Chris Davies, Feb 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony's plans to make the PlayStation Move controller a PC peripheral have been prematurely outed, after references to the "Move Server project" were included in a Game Developers Conference 2011 schedule. According to the description, Game Systems and Developer Support head John McCutchan will be discussing PC software development for Move at a GDC talk later this month. Read The Full Story

Adam gets Android Market as Notion Ink slate rooted

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

There comes a time in every Android device's life when it gets rooted and comes of age; it's now the turn of Notion Ink's Adam. Production versions have only been with buyers for a few days, but already the NotionInkHacks team has rooted the Tegra 2 slate, come up with a custom ROM and added in Android Market access, among other things. Read The Full Story

PS3 update v3.56 released; blocks unofficial firmware

Chris Davies, Jan 27th 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony isn't all about the NGP this morning; the company has also pushed out a new firmware update for the PS3. Described as a "minor update", PS3 System Software v3.56 adds a security patch to the console but also reportedly blocks third-party firmware from being used. Read The Full Story

Farmville Hacked, Follow-Up To Facebook Hack?

Robert Evans, Jan 26th 2011 Discuss [2]

It's been a hard week for Facebook. Earlier this morning we heard that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's profile page was hacked. This followed the hack of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook page earlier in the week. And now the rash of hacks has finally hit the mass of users. Farmville has been breached. Read The Full Story

Viewsonic GTablet gets UI overhaul with Notion Ink’s Eden [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 26th 2011 Discuss [3]

Viewsonic's GTablet didn't exactly impress early-adopters with its stock interface, but it seems Notion Ink may have inadvertently come to the rescue. xda-developers modder roebeet has taken the Notion Ink ROMs and whipped up a custom Eden build for the GTablet, putting the three-pane UI and slick browser onto the rival slate. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: January 25 2011

Chris Burns, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

First of all today you've got to get your eyeballs out, your ears screwed in tight, and you mouse clickers greased up as we're releasing the hounds - Android Community Total Revamp Coming Soon! Next, get ANGRY as we give a thumbs down to everyone's favorite Bird Tossing Game. Behold Motorola XOOM in all it's professional advertisement glory. Check out a concept smartphone that runs both Windows Phone 7 and Android via cartridge loading. Get your hands on an iPad tyPad case and see how it stands up. Get your Pope on with an official decree on Internet Togetherness and Social Networks. Get your dancing boots out and tie em up tight as Will.i.am is named Director of Creative Innovation for Intel. Double check to make sure your dots and slashes are in order as Notion Ink Adam’s email app code origins come into question. Crank some kinetic power into your Android via Ben Heck. Finally, get your eyeballs and your hearts out as Vincent Nguyen and his little pal Android review the Motorola CLIQ 2. All this and MORE on The Daily Slash! Read The Full Story